No More Learning

Sex.
Concert, 3, Royal Albert Hall.
Runday League Concert, 7. Queen's Hall.
Mon.
TUES. José Gomez and Lorne Wallet's Violin and Vocal Recital, 8. 15.
Æolian Alall.
Winifred Purnell's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 30, Bechstein Hall.
Stock Kxchange Orchestral Society. 8. 30, Queen's Hall.
WED. Frederic de Lara's Recital, 8. 15, Steinway Hall.
Balfour Gardiner's Concert, 8. 30, Queen's Hall.
THORS. Miss Madeline Price's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall
London Choral Nociety, 8, Queen's Hall.
PRI. Germaine Schnitzer', Pianoforte Recital, 8. 15, Steinway Hall.
SAT.
Joan Manen's Orchestral Concert, 3. Queen's Hall.
Max Pauer', Pianoforte Recital, , Berhstein Hall.
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predominate as to number. Of Dürer there MADAME Kwast is preparing a biography striking of Desdemona will not be found;
is the
Nativity' which has St. Joseph of her father, Ferdinand Hiller, also his the Bianca scenes are transferred to the
drawing water from the well, an unusually correspondence with notable persons. last act and played in a street; and
fine and fresh copy; and an interesting She will be glad to receive any communica- Emilia's part is seriously curtailed.
Rembrandt is an Ecce Homo '--fifth state tions relating to the subject addressed to
out of nine. Even more noteworthy is the Charlottenburg, Schlütterstr. , 31.
To a certain degree the balance of the
Both
number of anonymous works and works by biography and letters ought to be very drama is affected by these modifications,
early little-known masters. We may also interesting, for Hiller, during a long and and pace, the achievement of which
mention two Bartolozzis and some fifty eventful life, was intimate with Mendelssohn, might have justified most of them, is
engravings by Chodowiecki.
Chopin, Liszt, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Rossini, not always secured because of the deli-
Heine, &c. There will surely also be some- berateness of the elocution and the delay
thing about Wagner, with whom in the caused by interpolated business. ". Thus
Musical Gossip.
Dresden days he was acquainted.
the lightning quickness of Othello's self-
The death is announced of Henry Trotter murder is spoilt by the Moor's being made
THE KING AND QUEEN have deposited on
loan at the Victoria and Albert Museum, He was the composer of songs, * The Death; | dagger ; the lieutenant's own (suppressed)
(or Trotère) last Wednesday at Fulham.
to sidle round till he can snatch at Cassio's
South Kensington, three musical instruments.
less Army,' Asthore,' 'Love can Wait,'
One is an upright grand made by R. Jones &c. , which, though written calamo currente,
words condemn that innovation. In
in 1808, apparently for George IV. when
soon achieved a popularity which in some
other respects, too, the sweep of the action,
Prince of Wales; and another an harmonium
cases they still retain.
which should gather momentum as it
made for travelling, formerly used on the
proceeds, is delayed by the slow delivery
royal yacht. But more interesting than
of Othello's verse and lago's leisurely
either of these is a two-manual harpsichord
methods.
made by Hans Ruckers the Elder, and dated
1612. The keyboards, keys, jacks, and stops
It was not to be expected that Sir
Miss Daker. Fletcher's Vocal Recital,
8. 15. Bechstein Hall.
are, however, of modern make. A. J.
Herbert Tree's handling of Salvini's great
Hipkins, in Grove's ‘Dictionary of Music
part would be more than a tour de force.
and Musicians,' new edition, in the article
Essentially an intellectual and intro-
Ruckers,' describes it, and says that it
spective actor, he can but simulate a
may have been the large harpsichord left
display of animal ferocity; he cannot give
by Handel to Smith, and given by the latter
to King George III. ” On a label, however,
passion full rein or carry the playgoer
Miss Alice Jones' Pianoforte Recital, 3, Steinway Hall.
the instrument is “said to be the original
away by the compelling power of his
harpsichord bequeathed by 'Handel to
emotions. There is little use, therefore,
George II. ” Neither in Handel's will
in complaining that his is a picturesque
in any of its four codicils is there,
rather than a tragic Othello. Rather
any mention of such
a bequest. Had
J. S. BACH.
should he be admired for doing so much
Hipkins seen that label, he would certainly
Mansel House, Oxford, March 16, 1912. with a character foreign to his tempera-
have mentioned it. Who wrote it ? and
when ! We were informed by the authorities
May I beg you to do me the favour of ment, for conveying so admirably his
that it must have come with the instrument allowing me to state that a “new edition
apprehension of the man's moods, and
from the Palace, and that is all the informa-
of a Life of Johann Sebastian Bach,' husbanding his resources so skilfully that
tion they could give.
published under my name by Messrs.
Charles Scribner's Sons at New York, has the play is never noticeably let down.
A SMALL Beethoven discovery has been been issued without my revision and without His is an uxorious and middle-aged Moor,
made at Prague. Dr. Arthur Chitz is said
my knowledge ? The original book was full of dignity in his white robes and look
to have found among the manuscripts of published in London by Messrs. Sampson of abstraction, quiet in the earlier acts,
Count Clam-Gallas an Andante, with varia- | Low thirty years ago ; what the character slow to kindle at the flame of jealousy,
tions for cembalo and mandoline, Dédié à of the reprint is I am unable to say, as the
Mlle. de Clary. It was to her that the com: publishers have not had the civility to send tion, violent--only self-consciously. This
and then passionate merely in declama-
poser dedicated his Recitative and Aria “Ah!
me a copy:
REGINALD L. POOLE.
perfido”; and on a leaf in the Berlin Library
is an Othello who, amid the turmoil of
are some sketches for it, also for an un.
the third act, has time to study his
known piece for piano and violin, while in
features in the glass. Far from being con-
the margin is written pour Mademoiselle la
sumed by rage, he seems to contemplate
Comtesse de Clari. " That unknown piece
DRAMA
the drama of his soul.
which he was sketching may possibly be the
discovered. Two short pieces for
Mr. Laurence Irving symbolizes his
mandoline and pianoforte by Beethoven aro
conception of Iago in a piece of prelimi-
known. They are both in the Supplement OTHELLO' AT HIS MAJESTY'S.
nary by-play : his Ancient catches a
of the Breitkopf & Härtel critical edition of
moth and burns it in a torch at his side.
Beethoven's works. The first one, in c minor,
is marked "about 1795," at which time provided at His Majesty's will render significant.
The setting rather than the acting His Mephistophelian make-up is also
He is impish, mercurial,
Beethoven was in Prague; the second, in
E flat, bears no date. The Countess Jose- Sir Herbert Tree's revival of Othello' Puck-like, his movements resembling those
phine Clary married Count Christian Clam. memorable. The fifteenth-century cos- of a cat, his gestures jerky, his general air
Gallas in 1797.
tumes, fabrics, and armour; the glimpses too eccentric, his villainy on too petty a
of Venetian waterways; the effects of scale, his manner extravagant to the
IN the current number of The Classical
Review Mr. Warde Fowler draws an interest-
storm and sunshine at sea in the first point of burlesque. Mr. Irving has,
ing parallel between early Roman poetry Cyprus scene; the gleam of stars as they however, his moments of inspiration,
and modern English music. Greece, in the show through the entrance to Desdemona's especially as the saddened friend of Cassio,
person of Ennius, a foreigner of genius, bedroom—these impress the spectator but so odd an Iago, one thinks, would
overwhelmed the old rude poetry of Rome, with a sense of their beauty and fitness. never have won the confidence of Othello
and the praise of sung to But his
or the smiles of Desdemona.
. Similarly, he suggests, Handel
his great German successors 'overwhelmed witnesses ; he looks on at a spectacle employed in speaking of the performance
our national music, and we had no really instead of being plunged into a welter of Miss Phyllis Neilson-Terry. " The Cassio
great English composer for a century after of passion.
of the revival may be too amateurish,
his death. Now English musicians have Perhaps there is rather too much the Brabantio undistinguished, but the
absorbed foreign influences sufficiently not pictorial illustration of the text, two charm and unaffected pathos of the
to be subservient to them, and we may
hope for the flowering of a native school
scenes being used at times where one Desdemona are undeniable, never more
which will correspond to the rise of Lucretius
would serve. This involves the sacrifice so than when she sings the Willow-Song. '
and Virgil
, who were free and able to of minor passages, and changes in the Experience has still much to teach this
assert their own poetical individuality in
their own way. "
sequence of events. , Cassio's lines are young actress, but already she is really
cut down; Othello's trance and his moving and sincere.
d
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play lacks the vital emotional development -Keceived.
essential to fine drama. The “family E. C. D. -Not suitable for us
failing is a constitutional slothfulness No notice can be taken of anonymous communications.
* JELF'S,' produced at Wyndham's Theatre which gives rise to some amusing situations. We cannot undertake to reply to inquiries concerning the
on Wednesday evening, is a novelist's play, The play was well acted, special praise appearance of reviews of books.
and its theme is of a kind that might suit a being due to Mr. Sinclair and Miss Eileen We do not undertake to give the valuo of books, china
novel, but does not come out very well in O'Doherty.
pictures, &c.
the theatre. Love in a bank has a pretty
sound, and a sentimental banker is perhaps
The death of Mr. Edward Terry recalls
possibility, though he would, we suspect, to older playgoers many pleasant memories T H E A TI E N Æ U M,
be unlikely to make a success of his business of characters odd, grotesque, and gay.
PRICE THRBEPENCE,
In Mr. Vachell's piece, however, the bank. His best performance, perhaps, was that of 1: pablished every FRIDAY in time for the Afternoon Male Terms
ing and the love-interest get in each other's Dick Phenyl, the bibulous barrister in Sir Ihree Montho, sa. 10d. ; for siz Montho, 12.
stor volte Months
way, and the story drags on through four A. W. Pinero's 'Sweet Lavender," at the store for the continent and all placer vickin tho Postal Union.
Por six Months, ss. ; for Twelve Months, 180. , commencing from any
long acts, hesitating between the notes of theatre to which he gave his own name; and dato, payable in advance to
seriousness and frivolity, till it concludes, he played several other Pinero parts with
in Drury Lane manner, with a crash of
The Atheneum Otice, Broam'. Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, E. O.
sensationalism. The author provides an Born in London in 1844, he had consider-
agreeable enough mixture of melodrama able experience in provincial tours before
and comedy, sentiment and eugenics, un he made his reputation at the Strand Theatre,
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.
selfish love and rash finance, but he leaves 1869–76. In the latter year he began, in
a number of loose ends and unexplained association with Nellie Farren, Kate Vaughan,
details which in the medium more familiar and others, that career of burlesque which AUTHORS AGENTS
to him he would doubtless have managed made the fortune of Hollingshead and the BAGSTER & SONS
more skilfully.
Gaiety Theatre. The plays were things of BELL & Sons
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My Theatrical and Musical Recollections,' TYPE-WRITERS, &c.
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YOST TYPEWRITER
One quaint feature of the piece deserves
notice. At a certain point Fenella's two
suitors are made to declare before her their
ideas of marriage. In Palliser's scheme of
life the possibility of children does not
figure; all he wants is a wife who can be
pal ” and help him to keep his place
JUST PUBLISHED. Domy 8vo, 108. Od not.
in the hunting set to which he belongs.
Jelf, on the other hand, talks, in the breezy
style of the heroes of 'Smith' and 'The
Walls of Jericho' and '98. 9,' of the blessings
of parentage and the charms of family lifo.
But this excursion into eugenics is merely
incidental, and does not affect the develop-
ment of the drama.
Essays and Letters.
By J. HOLLAND ROSE, Litt. D. ,
MR. GEORGE CAMERON, the author of
'Billy,' which was produced at the Play-
Reader in Modern History, University of Cambridge.
house last Saturday, makes a mistake In this volume Dr. Rose presents a series of essays, supplementary to his Life of William Pitt, and
in supposing it possible to occupy three dealing with the characters and careers of Pitt and Napoleon. It will also contain a valuable seleotion
whole acts with a jeune premier's pos- of important new letters by and concerning Pitt.
session and loss of four false teeth. Not
all the talent and accomplishment of Mr.
DR. ROSE'S LIFE OF PITT.
A. E. Matthews as the footballer hero, Miss
Florence Haydon as the heroine's mother,
VOL 1. -WILLIAM PITT AND NATIONAL REVIVAL
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rational person in three sentences,
is no adequate life of one of the greatest English statesmen. Now at last we have a work worthy of the subject. . . .
There is far more material in the one-act
Few living scholars are better equipped for the work. He has laid the foundation broad and
deep, and brings to the
study of British statesmanship an intimate and curious knowledge of the existing records. His style is an excellent
play 'Their Point of View,' by Wilfred T. one for an historian, being clear, picturesque, and spiced with just a flavour of epigram. "-Spectator.
Coleby, which preceded 'Billy. The argu-
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THE NEW HISTORY
432-433
mental Delusions of Home Rule)
435
435
136
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS
THE DOUBLE FBAST AT ATHENS
441
442
a garrison Mr. Routh's chapters on Life in Tangier,
445-446
446-447
448
seem to have touched is the evidence of gier, which in any case was less humiliating
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912. Arabic writers, and the assistance of and less open to Continental criticism than
an Arabic scholar would have enabled him a sale or surrender to Spain or Portugal.
to identify the real Moorish names, which But Charles took all responsibility on
TANGIER AND JERUSALEM
are represented by uncouth English ver-himself, and sent out the Earl of Dart-
sions.
MOODS, SONGS, AND DOGGERELS
mouth with orders so secret that even
ABOUT BIBLIOGRAPHY (Catalogue of Printed Editions If the subject of Tangier comes up in Pepys, who accompanied the expedition,
of Holy Scripture; Fifteenth-Century Books in the
British Museum; Manuscripts and Books be-
conversation (when it will probably be knew nothing of its purpose till he had
queathed to the Museum by A. H. Huth; Guten- cited, erroneously, as * Tangiers ”), the been five days at sea. It took months to
berg - Gesellschaft Publications; The Revival of
Printing ; Bibliographical Society Transactions ; inevitable question is asked, Why did dismantle and blow up the forts and mole,
English Editions of the Classics printed before
1641)
England give it up ? The answer to which had taken years of toil and danger
AMERICA AND EDUCATION (The Society of College this is, first, that England, constitu- to build and strengthen, but it was done
Teachers of Education ; The Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching; Social Aspects
tionally, never possessed it. Tangier was at last; and Dartmouth sailed away from
of Education; Farm Boys and Girls). .
HOME RULE (Against Home Rule; The Military
434 part of the dowry of Queen Catherine of a razed city at the beginning of 1684 amid
Danger of Home Rulo ; Irish Home Rule; Funda. Braganza on her marriage with Charles II. , the jubilation of the Moors and the
WIDSITH, AN OLD ENGLISH HEROIC LEGEND::
and thus became the personal property of neighbouring pirates of Algiers, and the
the King. It was maintained out of the consternation of the British merchantmen;
*THE ROMANCE OF WORDS; THINGS THAT MATTER;
RO< 441 royal income, and it cost Charles 70,0001. a and to the great loss of England's prestige
FORTHCOMING BOOKS . .
year to keep it up even in a scarcely in the Mediterranean.
LITERARY GOSSIP
SCIENCE - TECHNIQUE OF THE TEAT AND CAPILLARY defensible condition, with
,
GLASS TUBE; NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS;SOCIETIES ;
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK; GOSSIP
43-444 mustering under 2,000, though these were
on the Garrison, the Pirates of Algiers,
FINE ARTS-NATURB IN ITALIAN ART ; Two EXHIBI. the stirpes of some of our most famous Col. Kirke, and the Morocco Ambas-
TIONS OF ETCHINGS ; GOSSIP
MUSIC - ORGAN MUSIC; GOSSIP; PERFORMANCES
regiments.
sador” are lively reading, and his account
NEXT WEEK. .
DRAMA-NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS; PLAY-MÄKING ;
The whole period of occupation was a of the great though unfinished mole is
GOSSIP
447–448 perpetual struggle against the attacks and excellent. The illustrations are excep-
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS ::
::
intrigues of the Moors, finally led by the tionally interesting, for they comprise
greatest of all the Sherifian Emperors, plans and drawings by Wenceslaus Hollar
Mulai Ismail, and the struggle was carried and other contemporary artists which
on with inadequate forces, irregular pay give an admirable idea of Tangier as it
LITERATURE
and supplies, inefficient and self - seeking was in the days of the British occupation.
commanders-with distinguished excep-
tions, however, in Lord Teviot, Sir Palmes The appearance of Jerusalem in Messrs.
Fairborne, and a few others. It was Dent's series of " Mediæval Towns may
TANGIER AND JERUSALEM.
impossible that the King could continue seem paradoxical, but Rome had already
The history of the brief occupation of to bear the cost, especially after the great established a precedent, and Jerusalem
Tangier by England was but inadequately siege of 1680 had shown the need for fresh played a dramatic part in the Middle
Ages.
treated until Mr. Hubert Hall of the fortifications and large reinforcements. Sir Charles Watson, however, rightly
Public Record Office suggested the sub- Before this indeed, in 1679, the House decided that his historical sketch must
ject to Mr. Routh, who has carried out of Commons had “ordered a Bill to be begin at the beginning, and nearly half
the work in a remarkably thorough and brought in for annexing Tangier to the of his interesting volume is concerned
exhaustive manner, with the help of Imperial Crown of England,” which would with ancient times. It would be difficult
hundreds of unpublished documents. He have thrown the burden on Parliament to name a more competent writer for the
has ransacked the treasures of the Record instead of the King; and a resolution was subject. As Chairman of the Palestine
Office, with its rich Admiralty and Colonial passed “ that those who shall advise his Exploration Fund he is perfectly ac-
Office papers ; the British Museum, Bod- Majesty to part with Tangier to any quainted with the progress of archæo-
leian, and Cambridge University Library;
foreign Prince or State. . . . ought to be logical research in the Holy Land, where
the State Papers and Reports of the accounted enemies to the King and king brother officers of his Corps, such as
Historical MSS. Commissioners ; besides
dom. ” But things had changed by 1683. General Sir Charles Warren, the late Sir
contemporary pamphlets, ballads, and The fear of Popery was growing fast, and Charles Wilson, and Col. Conder, not to
correspondence. The result is a very Irish Catholicsit is recorded that during with signal success. In writing Wilson's
the Tangier garrison, containing many mention Lord Kitchener, have worked
full book, authenticated as to all impor-
tant statements by ample references.
a siege the spoken communications to the biography and revising his article on
Our chief, indeed our only, criticism is outposts were in Irish, lest renegades Jerusalem in the recent edition of The
that the author, in his desire to include among the Moors should understand them Encyclopædia Britannica,' Sir C. Watson
every recorded detail, is in some danger --and these trained and efficient troops, had occasion to go thoroughly into the
of losing his sense of proportion. It is devoted to the King, were regarded as a many acute controversial points with
the familiar example of the wood and the menace to the liberty of England, especi- which the identification of sites fairly
trees. In the multiplicity of insignificant ally in view of James II. 's succession. bristles. He has carefully studied the
details—such as Mrs. Carr's quarrels with The Commons definitely gave Charles the great work of Dr. George Adam Smith,
Lady Fairborne-we are apt to lose sight choice between Tangier and the Exclu- the publications of the Palestine Pilgrims
of the salient events, whilst the throwing sion Bill, and the King declined to throw Texts Society, and the Quarterly State-
of much of the material into the foot-
over his brother.
ments of the Palestine Fund, and read
notes interrupts the flow of the narrative, “The nation. . . . was left with an in the chief books of travellers from the seven-
in itself not too fluent. But over-elabora- effaceable determination to be ruled neither teenth century to the nineteenth, such as
tion is at least a fault on the right side ; by priests nor soldiers. It is to these two Sandys, Maundrell, R. Pococke, Chateau-
and the brief occupation of Tangier offered
causes that may be traced the downfall briand, and Robinson. He does not refer
an exceptionally definite and restricted element of danger to Protestantism and cal description of Palestine (reviewed in
of Tangier, which was regarded. . . . as an to Mr. Huntington's admirable geographi-
range of documents, and thus encouraged to Parliamentary independence, and as a
a serious bid for finality. The only side weapon of which it might be well to he has missed the exceedingly graphic
The Atheneum, August 5, 1911); and
of his subject which Mr. Routh does not deprive the Royal House. '
account of Jerusalem under the Templars
Tongier : England's Lost Atlantic Outpost,
In the debate on the subject Sir William which was written by that interesting
1861–84. By E. M. G. Routh. (John Jones struck the dominant note: “Tan-
person
Usama ibn Munkidh, lord
Murray. )
gier has a Popish Church. "
of Shaizar, and translated by Prof.
The Story of Jerusalem. By Col. Sir C. M. It is said that Sunderland suggested H. Derembourg. He relies, perhaps a
Watson, R. E. (Dent & Sons. )
the demolition and abandonment of Tan- / little too confidently, on the authority of
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Josephus and the Hebrew Scriptures, but that had passed from the time of the Cruci- kaf or gaf, not a ghain. The Ayyubites
may dispute their predominant fixion to the time of Constantine. Those
were not Memluk Sultans," nor did
importance.
who uphold the authenticity of the sites Harun al-Rashid immediately succeed Abu
Besides all this, Sir Charles Watson tradition as to their position, but of this Jafar (i. e. , Abu-Ja'far al-Mansur). Balkh
brings to his subject the military insight there is no proof, and, having regard to the
was not in Afghanistan. The only mis-
of a Royal Engineer officer, often of history of Jerusalem after its complete prints we noted are Arannah (p. 32),
considerable value in determining dis- destruction by Titus, it is not very probable. l'Estrange (p. 137), and “ account for
puted questions about lines of walls and all that is known for certain is that Macarius accounts (p. 22). To speak of the “Mosque
positions of forts; and he has evidently found them. ”
was ordered to find the sites, and that he of Aksa, when “ aksa is an adjective,
spent much time on the ground, making
is perhaps deferring to popular usage.
himself familiar with every part of the In this clear summary he has adopted We specially commend the admirable
city in a way that neither the desk his- Wilson's reasoning in Golgotha and the plan of Jerusalem appended to the work,
torian nor the mere tourist can approach. Holy Sepulchre, and he might have but a few of the names do not correspond
He writes in a clear, unemotional style, clinched the argument by the evidence as with the text, or rather the text gives the
not without touches of ironical humour to the position of the second wall; but, Arabic (Bab el-Hadid, Bab en-Nazir)
where such seemed permissible, and prefers as he admits, his view, though based on without the translations, whilst the plan
to give a lucid historical narrative instead very strong grounds, partly military, is gives the English (Iron Gate, Gate of the
of rhapsodical impressions. His book will not universally accepted.
Inspector). We should have liked also
be found both pleasant and instructive But the history of Jerusalem is fascinat- to see a reproduction of the Medeba plan.
by those whom he specially addresses, ing enough, apart from any “sites. ” Sir The book is profusely illustrated with
namely, travellers and students who Charles Watson makes one “ visualize" original sketches by Lady Watson, in
the little twin villages on the western and which the impression rather than detail
wish to continue their studies on the eastern hills, a thousand years and more is sought for; and there is a fine photo-
spot, and to picture to themselves, as far before Jerusalem is mentioned in writings, graph of the so-called Pool of Hezekiah
as possible, what Jerusalem was like at
different periods of its existence, and so to and see the primitive city of David, built for frontispiece. The index is excellent.
trace its story from the time when it was probably of wood-little more than a
just a village in the hills, long before Joshua chief's camp, with few civil inhabitants.